Prakash Patel, MD, CEO of the Lake Mary, Fla.-based Access MediQuip, has launched a blog to discuss healthcare issues, surgical implants and trending business topics.
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
National Medical Billing Services, a national healthcare revenue cycle management company with a focus on servicing ambulatory surgery centers and affiliated surgeons, has been named to the 2013 Global Outsourcing 100 list by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.
Billing and coding operations at ambulatory surgery centers are rapidly changing. ASCs may need to evaluate and update certain practices to stay relevant, compliant and profitable.
Dayton, Ohio-based Kettering Anesthesia Associates outsourced its billing to Zotec Partners, an Indianapolis-based medical billing and practice management company.
At the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago May 10, Vince Pryor, CFO of Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., and Bruce Shapiro, senior vice president of operations at The CCS Companies, parent company of CCS Revenue Cycle Management, discussed…
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The American Medical Association has been a staunch critic of the healthcare industry's ICD-10 timeline, and according to a report from AMA's board of trustees, moving directly from ICD-9 to ICD-11 is also "fraught with its own pitfalls."
The Texas Medical Association is attempting to modernize state medical practices this legislative session through various billing improvement processes, according to The Texas Tribune.
Ambulatory surgery centers have two main customers outside of the physicians practicing in the center — referring physicians and patients. Great relationships with both of these customers are crucial to an ASC growing and thriving in any community.
The healthcare industry has known since August 2012 that the switch from the ICD-9 to ICD-10 code set would be effective as of Oct. 1, 2014 for all HIPAA-covered entities. However, like many healthcare entities, some ASCs have found themselves…
The hospital and healthcare industry is one of the few industries that still uses obsolete communication technologies, such as pagers, and the cumulative effect of relying on those systems costs the sector $5.15 billion every year, according to a report…